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Looking for a truly unique speaker for your home? The Om/One actually levitates above its base while it pumps out your favorite tunes wirelessly, making for a talking point that speaks for itself.<p>This isn’t just a crazy concept: the Om/One Levitating Bluetooth Speaker is for real, and on sale right …

After watching profits tumble this year due to increased competition from other Android phone makers, Samsung sits at an odd inflection point. It can pump out pricey, generic Android phones and watch cheaper phone manufacturers continue to eat its lunch, or it can start innovating in software and …

Safety Car: Lapping suburbia in the everyman sports sedan.<p>The Accord is nothing if not popular; Honda’s bestseller ranked second among all cars in the U.S. in 2013, with 366,678 sales. Unit number 58,634 entered the <i>Car and Driver</i> fleet shortly after this ninth generation made its debut and just …

<b>Four Tet</b> is gearing up for another all-night gig in south London. So far he's the only confirmed act, but considering that his previous curated soirees have included bliss-producers such as Floating Points, Caribou and Animal Collective, it should be pretty special (22 Mar, O2 Academy Brixton, SW9)…<p>…

I just can't. I cannot deal with this.<p>According to YouTube, Belka lives in Churchill, Manitoba. Her name means "squirrel" in Russian and she's only 20 days old. From the video page:<p>Her human is trying to teach her how to howl. She's not <i>quite</i> there yet, but it seems like she's getting close!

At the Breslin in NYC, Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione joins Andrew Knowlton for a shot, a beer, and some sage anti-hangover advice<p><b>Sam Calagione</b> knows a thing or two—probably even three—about booze. He's the owner and founder of Dogfish Head, the Delaware-based microbrewery whose beers are as …

Not long ago wine, or any form of alcohol, was considered a preventative beverage. Before we had sanitary drinking water, wine was the safest bet in town. Good mothers ensured their children enjoyed a morning cup of some fermented beverage for calories as well as for prevention of infection. In the …

What do you do when you're working a long shift on an oil ship off the coast of West Africa? If you're the crew of the Bourbon Peridot, you make the world's best lip dub of "Africa" by Toto, of course.<p>There's nothing better than watching a bunch of tough guys fully commit to lip syncing a pop song …

Samsung's concave phone is very much real, and after being teased in leaks hours earlier, SK Telecom has announced it'll launch the Galaxy Round on its network as soon as tomorrow. The device's highlight is obviously the gently curved 1080p 5.7-inch OLED screen, and Samsung is also promising a …

Grand Theft Auto Online — the multiplayer element of open-world action game Grand Theft Auto V — launched Tuesday, but a lot of players haven’t even made it through the tutorial yet. Publisher Rockstar said to expect problems at launch, and actually getting into the first tutorial race is now the …

When the phone first came out, reviewers criticized Samsung for shoving too many complex and glitchy extras in the phone.<p>But there are some features in the GS4 that do work well and could be useful, and you won't find them in the GS4's chief rival, the iPhone.<p>Let's take a look at some of the best …